16 April 2011

Miss Hummingbird and her wee little eggs

We've had a hummingbird in a small tree outside our front porch.  To see a pretty bird is pretty exciting around her seeing as this town is overloaded with pidgeons every where you turn.  The kids love to check on her every day to see if she is still sitting there on her nest.  She has been there for about 4 weeks.



 Then we got brave and put up the ladder to see what the eggs looked like when the bird flew away for a minute.  There are two, and they are white and tiny.  We can't wait to see if we get to meet the baby birds one of these days!
It could be this kind:
General Description: Broad-tailed Hummingbirds (Selasphorus platycercus) are tiny green birds with long bills. They hover in front of flowers and feed on nectar. Males have a red iridescent gorget (throat feathers) under the chin. The neck feathers are white, clearly separating the gorget from the green feathers on the side of the chest. The top of the head is green. Females have a white throat with lines of tiny green dots, and they show some red on the sides and a little in the tail.
Broad-tails have very noisy wings.  (We can hear the wings when the hummingbird flies around.)

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